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Boinx Software's Fotomagico 2.5 - slide show software for the Mac You can make a professional level slide show on your Apple computer, and its made easy with FotomagicoRobert JensenIf you own a Mac computer then you may not be aware of this but you can easily take your photos and put together an amazingly professional quality slideshow, complete with music and special effects, and all you need is an inexpensive program to do it. Boinx Software's Fotomagico. Its as easy as making a batch of cookies and takes about as long, even if its your first time using the program.

SIGGRAPH 2008 Wrap-up: 3D Apps get updatesJon CarrollSIGGRAPH 2008 occupied most of the main convention center floor of the Los Angeles convention center, with 230 companies exhibiting and a reported 28,400 attendees. Covering everything, even with an army of writers, is still difficult- but here's a summary of select vendors at SIGGRAPH.

Adobe's Allen Partridge on Director's Past, Present, and Future Director is back, it goes to 11, and it's ready for actionKevin SchmittNaturally, questions are going to be raised when any software product takes a four-year hiatus, especially when the program in question happens to be a stalwart multimedia veteran like Director, the eleventh version of which was finally released several months back. Enter Adobe's Director Evangelist, Allen Partridge. Allen started out in design, but eventually dove headfirst into Director programming, giving him a unique perspective of the product from several different angles. Allen was kind enough to sit down recently for a candid discussion on where Director has been, is now, and where it may be going.

Red Plasticy Material in CINEMA 4D Recipe to Go! Go! Go!Ko MaruyamaIf you're a 3D artist watching television this week, you've probably noticed a flood of new graphics, including some great looking red plastic stuff. Back in the day, there were great little Chinese toys that were made of a dense red plastic. Here's one recipe to create a similar vibe using MAXON's CINEMA4D. Special thanks to Pixel Corps member Mark Rigby for his translation. Go!

Recording Internet Radio Time to get a larger hard driveMatthew DavidThere are thousands of Internet Radio stations on the Web. They are broadcasting everything from chat radio to top 40 to anything you can imagine. A big problem, though, is that you can't listen to these stations very easily from your car. In this article, I will show you how you can record Internet radio stations, store them on your MP3 player and play them back whenever, or wherever, you happen to be.

How to Reduce the Size of a PowerPoint file A Few Tips to Reduce PowerPoint File SizeWIKIGreta Williams has a large PowerPoint slideshow which weighs about 26MB and he is looking for ways to compress the PowerPoint file and share it as an email attachment.